RI: Principle-Driven Embodied Vision: Autonomous Radiance Manifold Exploration for Functional Affordance Discovery

Overview

Intelligent embodied agents, such as robots, need to understand what objects can be used for, not just what they are called. This is difficult in everyday environments where objects are cluttered, partly hidden, unfamiliar, or useful in ways that are not obvious from a single view. A robot asked to find something that…